http://www.ubuntugeek.com/monitoring-ubuntu-services-using-monit.html
A howto on setting up monit on an Ubuntu server. Fairly simple and straightforward. Includes basic info on customising alerts and so on.
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/
Put simply, Puppet is a system for automating system administration tasks. It's a language to define services, nodes, dependencies, and so on. Then it handles the "realisation" or "execution" of those definitions across multiple platforms, etc.
http://www.capify.org/
Capistrano is a system built in Ruby to execute commands on many servers, in parallel via SSH. Config files, jobs, etc are written in Ruby.
http://www.linuxnetworkcare.com/
Linux Network Care are a specialist Linux server management company. They offer remote server administration, technical support, appliance management (cPanel, Plesk, etc) and so on.
http://rack-admins.com/
Rack Admins are a server admin company which appear to be based out of Ukraine. Their charges start from $30/hour for administration, $60/hour for consultancy.
http://www.unitedhosting.co.uk/
United Hosting offer both UK and US based, fully managed servers. They start from £200 / $300 per month. Recommended by Henry Dillon.
